Issues/Policy

When the nation’s capital, Abuja, as an idea clocked 40 on February 3 this year (3rd February 1976-3rd February 2016), I had accused the authorities in Abuja – from the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) […]

A Scottish-Muslim shopkeeper was violently stabbed to death in Glasgow in front of eyewitnesses. The brutal attack took place hours after he wrote a heartfelt Easter message of peace and tolerance to Christians.

Two years ago, I wrote a brief update on my social media page to praise the business ingenuity and nationalist economic instinct of Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote. The recent revelations of how the Dangote […]

Civil society leaders and lawyers have lambasted the management of the Central Bank of Nigeria for secretly recruiting dozens of family members of top government officials, including children of ministers and a nephew of President […]

ABUJA – President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, dubbed Rivers State as Nigeria’s most deadly state, even as he offered profuse apologies for the ill-tempered elections conducted under his watch in Kogi, Bayelsa and Rivers states.

LAGOS — As if to call the bluff of President Muhammadu Buhari’s pronouncement to generate 10,000 megawatts, MW, by 2019, output from the generating plants dropped to as low as 2,841MW by mid-day, yesterday. Data […]

You’ve heard of Darfur, and you know about the slaughter underway in Syria. But the worst ethnic cleansing you’ve never heard of is unfolding in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan, where the government is bombing […]

The bill for gender parity and prohibition of violence against women was presented before the Eighth Senate for the first time by the senator representing Ekiti South, Biodun Olujimi, last week. But it didn’t pass […]

A committee set up to probe contracts awarded by the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) from 2011 to 2015 has recovered N7bn as well as indicted more than 300 companies and prominent citizens, […]

The Lagos State judiciary has stated why one Mrs Yetunde Osijo, who was alleged to have been involved in a traffic dispute with a magistrate, Mrs Funke Sule-Amzat, was arraigned. Yetunde Osijo’s husband, Dipo reportedly […]

Some 400 trained Islamic State jihadists have been sent to Europe to carry out attacks, security experts told the Associated Press on Wednesday. The warning comes a day after a terror cell in Belgium launched […]

The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NIMET) said on Tuesday that Nigerians should be prepared to confront more hot days, warm nights and heat waves in the days and months to come. NIMET attributes the unfavourable whether […]

A breakdown of the N6.060 trillion Budget showed that consideration was given to certain critical sectors, like Job Creation, Payment to local contractors, the Nigeria Mortgage Refinancing Company, the Sinking Fund, as well as provision […]

An attempt by a yet to be identified former Nigerian governor to transfer $517million out of United Arab Emirates to Dominican Republic has been blocked by the authorities.

Second Republic member of the House of Representatives and Russian trained medical doctor, Junaid Mohammed has given a damning verdict on the cabinet of President Muhammadu Buhari, dismissing his ministers as incompetent. Speaking in an […]

ABUJA-Against the background of the violence that apparently characterized the rerun elections in Rivers State, Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State has lashed out at president Mohammadu Buhari, saying that God is angry with him […]

ABUJA – Against the background of the violence that apparently characterized the rerun elections in Rivers State, Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State has lashed out at president Mohammadu Buhari, saying that God is angry […]

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Wednesday described a former Senior Special Assistant to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan on Public Affairs, Doyin Okupe, as ​a ​hypocrite for describing him (Obasanjo) as the leader of the opposition PDP […]